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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Albuquerque, NM

October 4, 2004Bernalillo County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 4, 2004, 10:31 PM MDT for Bernalillo County, New Mexico. It was in force for 44 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Oct 4, 2004, 10:31 PM MDT (04:31 UTC)
Expired: Oct 4, 2004, 11:15 PM MDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Bernalillo County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 4, 10:34 PM MDT	HAIL 0.88	Albuquerque, NM	CESAR CHAVEZ AND YALE
Oct 4, 10:48 PM MDT	HAIL 0.75	Albuquerque, NM	FOOTHILLS

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 10 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3041 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS55 KABQ 050431
SVRABQ
NMC001-050515-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
1030 PM MDT MON OCT 4 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN BERNALILLO COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 1115 PM MDT

* AT 1022 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER ALBUQUERQUE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  OVER SANDIA HEIGHTS AT 1055 PM MDT
  6 MILES NORTH OF TIJERAS AT 1110 PM MDT
  OVER SANDIA PARK...4 MILES NORTH OF CEDAR CREST...7 MILES NORTHWEST
  OF SEDILLO AT 1115 PM MDT

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF VERY LARGE HAIL WHICH CAN
CAUSE INJURY AND PROPERTY DAMAGE. TAKE SHELTER NOW.

LAT...LON 3521 10665 3521 10625 3509 10625 3505 10661
      3503 10663 3503 10672 3514 10676 3520 10676
      3523 10666

$$

CHJ

The office that day

Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 4, 8:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Cibola, Valencia	37 min
Oct 4, 9:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo	45 min
Oct 4, 9:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Cibola	61 min
Oct 4, 11:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo	43 min
Oct 5, 12:31 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Sandoval	59 min
Oct 5, 12:47 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Torrance	58 min
Oct 5, 1:44 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Torrance	61 min
Oct 5, 2:17 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	58 min
Oct 5, 4:19 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca	56 min
Oct 5, 4:42 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	De Baca, Quay	3 hr
Oct 5, 5:06 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo	39 min
Oct 5, 7:16 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	89 min
Oct 5, 7:37 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	38 min
Oct 5, 8:45 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	90 min
Oct 5, 9:25 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Sandoval	50 min
Oct 5, 10:18 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Sandoval	42 min
Oct 5, 11:46 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo	59 min
Oct 5, 12:04 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	De Baca	116 min
Oct 5, 12:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Sandoval	36 min
Oct 5, 12:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Valencia	40 min
Oct 5, 12:26 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Cibola	49 min
Oct 5, 12:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Sandoval, Valencia	44 min
Oct 5, 1:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	39 min
Oct 5, 1:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Valencia	46 min
Oct 5, 1:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo	61 min
Oct 5, 1:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	45 min
Oct 5, 1:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Socorro	67 min
Oct 5, 1:58 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Valencia	17 min
Oct 5, 2:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Torrance	59 min
Oct 5, 2:06 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Torrance	84 min
Oct 5, 2:14 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Torrance	31 min
Oct 5, 2:29 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Socorro	46 min
Oct 5, 2:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	15 min
Oct 5, 2:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo	51 min
Oct 5, 3:07 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Chaves	38 min
Oct 5, 3:45 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Chaves	45 min
Oct 5, 4:30 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Chaves	45 min
Oct 5, 4:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	56 min
Oct 5, 5:16 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Chaves	44 min
Oct 5, 5:25 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	De Baca	95 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.